I agree strongly with Dan Savage who writes on this subject:
Jo-Vanni Roman… the male escort that George Rekers hired to handle his baggage on his European vacation… can do a real service to the gay rights movement by telling the truth about what happened in Europe and bring down a malicious, malignant, and possibly/predictably self-hating, anti-gay gay bigot in the process -- [but he] is in way over his head. Rekers made Roman sign a confidentiality agreement and he's threatening to lawyer up and sue anyone and everyone he can to restore his "good" name. (Sorry, George, but it's too late for that.) Roman needs a lawyer and he needs one now…. [We must] demand that one of the big gay orgs -- HRC, Lambda Legal, NCLR -- steps up and provides Roman with the lawyer and the advisors he needs. Let's not treat this kid, who is just 20, like he's done something wrong, or like he's an embarrassment to the gay rights movement because -- gasp -- he was doing sex work, as has been reported, to pay his college tuition. This kind of hypocrisy -- Haggard's kind, Craig's kind, Rekers' kind -- needs to be exposed. And it's likelier to be exposed if the people who bring it to light aren't treated like pariahs and are instead offered real and tangible support.
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